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Spent three days in Hiroshima with a side trip one afternoon to Himeiji to see the castle which unfortunately was under renovation. Back in Hiroshima we caught the local bus loop around town to visit the Peace Park and Museum. Sobering images of the H bomb and all it's destruction.The park was beside the river and lined with cherry blossom.while in …

Monday morning and it was time to leave Kyoto and head for Hiroshima. Bullet trains were the transport of choice and by getting to our first stop early we managed to pick up a bullet train magnet, very cool. We arrived in Hiroshima to a lot of cloud and the prospect of rain in the afternoon. We managed to leave our bags at the hotel and then grab a …

... had the tickets before us, however, so we reasoned when they left, we’d follow. It worked perfectly.

Finally we were allowed to head up the stairs to the cars, where we boarded the first of our two airborne chariots. For reasons best known to themselves, they split the journey about two-thirds of the way up, and you go from a smaller, eight-seater car which runs on a circulating ropeway to a larger gondola which can hold thirty people – a ...